Faith After the Fall: Rebuilding When Everything Collapses with Victor Mena on Exploring the Marketplace (S:5 - Ep 27)
Exploring the Marketplace
Shawn Bolz
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn and Bob welcome back Victor Mena, an executive banker with over 30 years of experience and a reputation as a trusted advisor. Since his last appearance, Victor has walked through the collapse of the bank where he spent 28 years—losing a career, deferred compensation, and long-term security nearly overnight.
Victor shares how God sustained him and his family through loss, spiritual warfare, and uncertainty—and how faith, unity in marriage, generosity, and wise counsel helped lead him into a new season of leadership and influence.
This episode covers:
- What happens when a successful career suddenly ends
- Faith, identity, and stewardship during financial loss
- The biblical tension between debt, borrowing, and business growth
- Practical guardrails for using debt wisely in entrepreneurship
- Why unity, generosity, and peace are critical decision filters
- How God redeems loss and creates new opportunity through obedience
If you’re an entrepreneur, leader, banker, business owner—or navigating major financial or career decisions—this conversation will give you wisdom, courage, and perspective for the road ahead.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Explore the Marketplace, a podcast all about how faith impacts our guest careers and lives. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Sean Bowles here with my co-host. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Bob Hastin, and we're here to bring you unfiltered, powerful conversations with industry leaders, |
| 0:12.2 | entrepreneurs, and culture shapers for living at their faith in extraordinary ways. |
| 0:16.7 | From a billion-dollar boardrooms to creative industries, we reveal how God is moving through |
| 0:21.2 | everyday ordinary people just like you. |
| 0:24.2 | And this podcast will give you courage, which is our goal. |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah, these are the stories you don't get to hear on Sundays. |
| 0:29.2 | Plus, we get to dive deep in the latest trends and business, finance, entertainment, and politics, |
| 0:34.0 | giving you real insight from a kingdom and biblical perspective. |
| 0:37.0 | This is where faith meets influence. |
| 0:39.0 | This is exploring the marketplace. |
| 0:45.4 | Welcome to exploring the marketplace. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm Bob Hessin with my friend, Sean Bowles. |
| 0:50.8 | Sean, this has been a great season. |
| 0:53.1 | What are we doing today? |
| 0:55.2 | You know, I'm so glad we do this on Mondays now because people can start at their work with stories just like we have today from Victor, who is a banker who we've had on the show before, but he's gone through quite a bit since then with the entire bank he served as an executive actually failing. |
| 1:10.6 | The bank was completely destroyed, demolished. |
| 1:13.5 | And he had a story from being a Joseph and God raising him up in this position to then what? |
| 1:18.1 | Then what was God going to do? |
| 1:19.3 | We got to hear the story because it's so awesome. |
| 1:22.0 | And a real talk is one all about those of you have asked for borrowing with wisdom, |
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